**Height:** 162 cm
**Hometown:** Saitama

An upbeat girl with an optimistic and broad attitude. While she has a hard time understanding more complex things, she's still easy to talk to. She is in her 3rd year of High School.

Initially, despite being very energetic and friendly towards everyone she meets, when she gets on stage in front of an audience her voice becomes small and she struggles to get words out due to a past event. In order to help Mei work around her stage fright, the producer suggests that she adopt a cool and mysterious image as her on-stage persona. This way, she won't need to worry about talking a lot or forcing herself to make her voice sound bubbly. Mei agrees, and after her first performance she thanks the producer for her new strategy which allows her to continue to pursue a life as an idol. In stark contrast to how Mei acts in everyday life, laughing often and comfortably making conversation with even strangers, her on-stage personality is terse, speaking few words with a steady and husky voice.

The second season of The iDOLM@STER: Shiny Colors. 
Note: The series is having a three-part theatrical pre-screening in Japan starting in July 2024. Regular TV broadcast begins in Fall 2024. 
• Part 1 releasing theatrically on July 5, 2024. 
• Part 2 releasing theatrically on August 23, 2024. 
• Part 3 releasing theatrically on September 20, 2024.

**Favorite Color:** Strong Pink  
**Favorite Food:** Sweets  
**Least Favorite Food:** Pork, spicy food  
**Likes:** Rhinestones  
**Hobbies:** Cooking, singing, collecting hand towels  
**Specialty:** Tennis  

Kitahara Sayaka is a Japanese singer, actress and voice actress born on November 29, 1993 in Saitama Prefecture, Japan.

Sayaka was a member of Hello Pro Egg, under Hello! Project from 2004 to 2011, starring during this time the anime Kirarin Revolution as Noel Yukino and part of the unit MilkyWay (a tie-in with the anime). She graduated in 2011 and began a solo career as voice actress and singer, starring as Aoi Sorano on Inazuma Eleven GO and singing the first ending of the anime, Yappa Seishun (tr. It’s Gotta Be Youth).

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Asahi Serizawa, Fuyuko Mayuzumi, and Mei Izumi—the three members of the idol unit “Straylight” who declare each other rivals and clash with each other at times, but by polishing their skills, they shine even stronger... A new comic adaptation of the game THE iDOLM@STER Shiny Colors is here!
 
(Source: Kadokawa, translated)

A new episode included as a bonus in the ASOBI STORE special edition Blu-ray box, focusing on the SHHis unit.